Subject: English Language Arts (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5) Title: Natural Disasters!Description: This lesson is a part of a unit lesson on natural disasters. The students will be learning about different natural disasters throughout the week, and the students will put their knowledge to use by creating a poster and paper on the information they found. The students will complete their research on Galaxy Tablets with a group and find information on a natural disaster that their group picked.

Subject: English Language Arts (4) Title: It Happened to Me: Eruption of Mount St. HelensDescription: During this lesson, students navigate different websites to become familiar with volcanoes. Students then describe a volcanic eruption by creating their own stories about what it was like during the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

Subject: English Language Arts (4), or Information Literacy (K - 12), or Technology Education (3 - 5) Title: You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!Description: How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the characteristics that inventors share. They will create a slideshow presentation on an invention/inventor of their choice. Students will work through steps to come up with their own unique inventions. Finally, they will develop brochures to promote their inventions.

Subject: English Language Arts (4), or Information Literacy (K - 12), or Technology Education (3 - 8) Title: Skillful SlideshowsDescription: During this technology-based lesson, students learn how to create slideshow presentations that are creative and inviting to the audience. They use fonts, graphics, effects, etc, to capture audience attention.

Subject: English Language Arts (4), or Science (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5) Title: Animals as Pets: Everything You Need to KnowDescription: Choosing pets and caring for them appropriately is important for children. Many times children choose a pet without knowing the responsibility that is involved in pet care. In this lesson the students will work in pairs to research and present detailed information about a selected animal, including specifics about the animal and how to care for it as a pet.

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil WarAdd BookmarkDescription: Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 3,4,5

Subject: Arts,Language Arts,ScienceTitle: 'Leap, plashless'': Emily Dickinson and Poetic ImaginationAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read and explore one of Emily Dickinson's nature poems, A Bird came down the Walk--through interaction with other art forms. First, they listen to clips of a hymn to help them hear Dickinson's meter. Then, they view 19th-century bird images and describe what they see, just as a poet would. They observe how a poet plays with language and imagery to create a scene by acting out verse lines. Finally, they write a brief poem of their own, using what they have learned and their own observations.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 3,4,5